“Therefore approach, be ye righteous or
unrighteous. For if you are righteous, baptism alone is lacking
in order to salvation. But if you are unrighteous, come to be
baptized for the remission of the sins formerly committed in
ignorance. And to the unrighteous man it remains that his
well-doing after baptism be according to the proportion of his
previous impiety. Wherefore, be ye righteous or
unrighteous, hasten to be born to God, because delay brings danger, on
account of the fore-appointment of death being unrevealed; and show by
well-doing your likeness to the Father, who begetteth you of
water. As a lover of truth, honour the true God as your
Father. But His honour is that you live as He, being righteous,
would have you live. And the will of the righteous One is that
you do no wrong. But wrong is murder, hatred, envy, and such
like; and of these there are many forms.